Chapter 460 Plans and Problems

After three days of wrangling, the four major forces still reluctantly reached a cooperation agreement.

According to the Munich Space Cooperation Agreement, the four major forces will establish an organization called: Earth Alliance and Space Development Association, referred to as Earth Alliance or Earth Alliance.

The Earth Alliance is composed of four major forces, including the Free Association, the European Union, and Lucia. It also absorbs other members, including Persia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Pampas, and the Republic of Santiago, who have also joined the Earth Alliance. among.

Of course, the Ground Alliance is just a loose cooperation organization in the aerospace field.

After all, the four core forces of the Earth Alliance all have their own agendas and can form a reluctant and loose organization. It was already the pressure from the Homo Sapiens Company that made them make some compromises.

If Homo sapiens companies did not exist, they would not be able to cooperate at all.

Taking into account the issue of balance, the Ground Alliance itself does not have many mandatory provisions, but only some discussion and cooperation, emergency contact, information sharing, and theoretical cooperation.

As for funding, Dilian only received 50 million yuan in annual office funding and no other expenses at all.

Musk, who was involved in this cooperation negotiation, looked at the Earth Federation Association, which was acting like a housewife, with only speechlessness and a dry smile on his face.

Then Comte von Marcus, who was elected as the president of the first Land Federation Association, also knew that if this situation continued, the Land Federation would be almost a decoration, so he quickly came up with a proposal.

"Everyone, now that the Earth Alliance has been established, for the future of mankind and the expansion of the universe, I think the top priority now is to find an efficient way to enter outer space."

Regarding Conde's words, none of the participants present spoke immediately.

After all, the PPT plan for talking nonsense is very simple, but it is not easy to implement a plan that can actually be implemented.

Otherwise, the major forces on Earth would not be playing with launch vehicles all the time.

The emergence of the Earth Alliance now is to compete with the advantages of the Homo Sapiens Company in the aerospace field and avoid being locked to the earth by the Homo Sapiens Company.

This is one of the reasons why the four major forces can put aside some of their grudges and join forces to establish the Prefectural Alliance.

Once Homo sapiens companies can enter outer space on a large scale and realize long-term life in outer space, the uniqueness of the earth will become less unique.

And once the earth's environment can no longer restrain the Homo sapiens company, the consequences will be very serious, because this means that the homo sapiens company can abandon the earth at any time, and it also means that the homo sapiens company can do whatever it wants on the earth.

The major forces have obviously thought of this.

To avoid being dominated by others, they had to cooperate.

Musk stood up and said, "Gentlemen! The Space Exploration Company's recyclable launch vehicle is our best choice."

Although Bill also agrees with Space Exploration Company's technology, he still hopes that other companies or research institutions can come up with some new solutions.

After all, the Space Exploration Company's Falcon Heavy launch vehicle has a payload of only fifty or sixty tons in low-Earth orbit. There is no way it can compete with the Homo Sapiens Company.

After hearing Musk's words, other companies with ideas quickly stepped forward to speak for their companies and technologies.

It’s just that the presidents or technical executives of more than a dozen companies in a row have not come up with constructive plans.

Conde, Bill and others were a little frustrated and disappointed.

Right now.

Toth, a space company from Maple Leaf Country, Toth Caroline Roberts, president and CEO of the company, stood up to speak.

She projected her company’s PPT on the big screen behind her:

"Gentlemen and ladies, I am Roberts, the president of Tot Company. Our company has brought a very feasible solution. Please look at the big screen behind my body..."

Everyone looked at the PPT picture on the big screen.

“Our company has obtained a patent for America, which is used to build a free-standing tower-like structure that can extend 20,000 meters into the air from the surface of the earth. The height of this space tower is the Burj Khalifa (currently the world’s tallest tower). buildings) 20 times."

She continued: "Our design is different from other space elevators. The designs of other space elevators are more complex. For example, other designs require the use of graphene and carbon nanotube materials, but our company's solution does not."

"Ms. Roberts, how do you plan to build a 20,000-meter building?" Musk asked with a smile.

Roberts was well prepared for this, and she explained confidently: "The space tower designed by our company uses inflatable materials and flywheels, which provides dynamic stability because the entire space tower is inflated."

"Inflatable?"

"Airship airbag?"

Immediately everyone present reacted.

After all, using airships to build hoses is a successful plan of the Homo sapiens company.

Roberts continued: "Currently, the space elevator designed by our company limits the maximum height to 20,000 meters, which can effectively avoid the complex effects of geostationary orbit. However, our company's solution is different from that of the Homo sapiens company..."

After listening to Roberts' explanation.

Bill, Conde and others finally understood some aspects of this plan.

The specific operating mode of this space elevator designed by Toth Company is: astronauts will rise to 20,000 meters through the space elevator. On the launch platform at the top of the space tower, the space plane will be launched into space orbit in a single stage, and then return to space. The platform at the top of the tower replenished fuel and flew again.

According to Dr. Brandon Quinn, the designer of this space elevator, this system can save a lot of fuel and reduce the cost of launching rockets into space by about 30%.

And the space tower also contains self-landing rocket technology.

Roberts was blunt about this, saying that this was based on the powerful landing system developed by the Space Exploration Company, and that the barge landing on the sea was a good example.

But she also boasted about her own landing system: "... because the space tower platform lands 20,000 meters above sea level, space flight will be more like taking a jetliner. In the future, the space elevator can also be used as a platform for space tourism. An important part, at the same time, it would generate wind energy and enable space communications.”

Musk frowned: "Isn't this the space carrier launch technology of Homo sapiens?"

"Uh..." Roberts was a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, Bill was able to smooth things over in time: "Tot's patent was launched in 2015. The evil Homo sapiens company must have copied Tot's inspiration."

No one else said anything.

After all, there are no patents in the aerospace field, and everyone copies each other's answers.

After alleviating the embarrassment, Roberts quickly struck while the iron was hot: "Everyone, our company's solution only requires an investment of approximately US$5 billion, which is very cost-effective."

However, no one on the show is a smart person, and they will not be deceived by the so-called $5 billion investment.

After all, when many companies seek investment, they often like to lower the amount of investment and at the same time increase the effect, making it look like a very good deal.

But many times, projects are halfway through and then additional investment is required.

Musk, who was very unhappy, once again found trouble: "Do your airbags need to be filled with helium? Today's helium is not cheap!"

Bill also frowned when he heard helium.

Liquid helium now retails for $70 per liter.

According to Todt's design plan, there will definitely be a large number of airbags needed, which is not a small sum of money.

As for the idea of ​​using hydrogen instead of helium, unless they want to see the space tower turn into a flame tower.

After all, this is a platform that frequently launches carrier rockets or aerospace planes. If the flame ignites the hydrogen accidentally, it will really be the end of the world.

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